How Much Are Blizzard Beach Tickets (2026 Data)

A one-day ticket to Disney's Blizzard Beach water park costs $74¹ for adults and $68¹ for children aged 3 to 9 in September 2026, before sales tax. In 2013 the same ticket cost $53² and $45². That looks like a steep climb, yet once inflation is taken out the 2025 adult ticket cost only 1.0%³ more than the 2013 one, and less than at its 2019 peak of $86.89³ in 2025 dollars.

The ticket is a Disney water park ticket, not a Blizzard Beach ticket: it opens Blizzard Beach or Typhoon Lagoon, one park a day, and in recent years Disney has mostly run only one of the two at a time.⁴ Around it sit sales tax, lockers and shade rentals, and the most expensive Polar Patio costs more than a family of four's tickets. The sections below cover the 2026 price list, fourteen years of official prices, the full cost of a day, how many people visit, and what admissions earn Disney as a company.

Blizzard Beach ticket prices in 2026

Disney sells one standard product for its water parks, the 1-Day Water Park Ticket. Adults, meaning guests aged 10 and older, pay $74.00¹ plus $4.81¹ in tax, $78.81¹ in all. Children aged 3 to 9 pay $68.00¹ plus $4.42¹, $72.42¹ in all. The tax works out to 6.5%³ of the price on every product.

The ticket admits to Blizzard Beach or Typhoon Lagoon, one park per day, whichever water park is open.¹ On September 25, 2026, Disney's Typhoon Lagoon pages showed the park closed for refurbishment,⁵⁶ so for now the standard ticket is in practice a Blizzard Beach ticket. A water park ticket also comes with complimentary parking.¹ The full 2026 price list, with tax, is below.

The blockout-date ticket and the seasonal pass

Two other products change the arithmetic. The 1-Day Water Park Ticket with Blockout Dates costs $64¹ for adults and $58¹ for children, $10³ less per person than the standard ticket, but it is not valid on blockout dates.¹ Anyone flexible about the day saves the same amount on every ticket in the party.

The Disney Water Park Seasonal Pass costs $89¹ for adults and $83¹ for children and is valid through May 15, 2027, except on its blockout dates, February 19 to 21 and March 20 to 28, 2027.¹ That is only $15³ more than a single standard day, so the pass costs less than two standard tickets: for anyone who plans a second water park day before the pass expires, outside those blockout dates, it is the cheaper way in.

How the ticket price has changed since 2013

Copies of Disney's ticket page captured between March 2014 and August 2026 show every price step of the standard ticket. The adult price was $53² from at least June 2, 2013, rose to $58² between April 2014 and March 2015, then to $60² in February 2016, $62² in February 2017, $65² in February 2018 and $69² in March 2019.² It then stood still for more than four years before rising to $74² on October 11, 2023, a step of 7.2%³, the largest since the 9.4%³ step of 2014-15. The price has not changed since.¹

Children's prices moved in the same steps but by more. The child ticket went from $45² to $68¹, up 51.1%³, against 39.6%³ for adults, so the gap between the two prices narrowed from $8 to $6. The blockout-date ticket, first seen in the 2015 copies at $53² for adults, rose to $64² in March 2019 and has stayed there, which is why the saving it offers grew from $5 to $10³ when the standard price rose in 2023.² Disney publishes no price outlook; the dashed line on the chart is a straight-line trend, not a forecast.

The timing has a pattern. Four of the six increases took effect in February or March, just before the warm season, in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019; the 2023 increase broke it by arriving on October 11.² Between March 2019 and October 2023 the adult ticket went 55³ months without a change, the longest pause in the record. Since 2016 the steps have mostly grown: 3.4%³ in 2016 and 3.3%³ in 2017, then 4.8%³, 6.2%³ and 7.2%³ for the last three, though none matched the 9.4%³ step of 2014-15, when the adult price went from $53 to $58.²

The price after inflation

Restated in 2025 dollars with the consumer price index, the 2013 adult ticket was worth $73.25³. The real price climbed to a peak of $86.89³ in 2019, the year of the $69 price, then fell every year to $72.90³ in 2023 while the nominal price stood still and general prices rose fast.⁷ The 2023 increase lifted it back to $75.95³ in 2024, and in 2025 the ticket cost $74.00³, just 1.0%³ above the 2013 level in real terms.

Set against admission prices in general, the water park ticket has been a middling performer. From 2013 to 2025 the adult ticket rose 39.6%³ and the child ticket 51.1%³; the price index for admissions (movies, theaters, concerts, sporting events and other admissions) rose 43.6%³, and prices overall 38.2%³.⁸⁷ The table has every year.

The admissions index itself has a long record. It stood at 73.2⁸ in 1978 and reached 482.901⁸ in 2025, a rise to 6.6³ times the 1978 level. In 2025 alone it rose 4.3%³, faster than the Disney water park ticket, which did not change that year.⁸ The pace has quickened: a straight line through 1978-2025 rises 8.3³ points a year, but one through 2013-2025 rises 11.1³ points a year. The chart's trend line uses 2013-2025, the same years as the ticket record.

The ticket is only the entry fee. The day has a price of its own.

How much is Blizzard Beach for a whole day?

For two adults and two children aged 3 to 9, standard tickets cost $284.00³ before tax. Tax adds $18.46³, for $302.46³ at the gate.¹ A standard locker brings the day to $312.46³; adding the cheapest Lodge Umbrella on top makes it $361.46³.⁹ A standard Polar Patio, which already includes a locker, takes the same family from $527.46³ upward, since the patio alone costs $225¹⁰ to $425¹⁰ a day depending on the date.

Parking costs nothing: it is complimentary with a water park ticket.¹ Food and towels outside a patio booking are not in these totals. The budget lines are below; the shade prices carry tax on top, and the locker price is shown as listed.

How much are lockers at Blizzard Beach?

A standard water park locker costs $10¹¹ a day and a large one $15¹¹. The standard locker measures 12.5 by 10 by 17 inches (31.8 x 25.4 x 43.2 cm) inside; the large one 15.5 by 13 by 17 inches (39.4 x 33.0 x 43.2 cm).¹¹ Lockers are rented first come, first served.

The large water park locker costs $3³ more than the large locker at Disney's theme parks, which has the same inside dimensions and costs $12¹¹.¹¹ The small theme park locker costs the same $10¹¹ as the standard water park one, and a jumbo locker at Magic Kingdom and Epcot costs $15¹¹.

Shade: umbrellas and Polar Patios

Shade is where a Blizzard Beach day gets expensive. A Lodge Umbrella for up to four guests, with chairs and towels, costs $49⁹ to $109⁹ a day plus tax.⁹ A standard Polar Patio, for up to 10 guests with seating for 6, adds a shaded deck, towels, a locker, ice water, select soft drinks and an attendant for $225¹⁰ to $425¹⁰.¹⁰ The Premium Plus patio adds a roof, a mini fridge, a fan and phone chargers for $350¹² to $525¹².¹²

Typhoon Lagoon prices its shade the same way: umbrellas at $49⁵ to $109⁵, and three tiers of Beachcomber Shacks from $225⁶ up to $550⁶ a day.⁶

The patios come with rules: one guest in the party must be 18 or older, everyone needs valid water park admission, and cancellations need 24 hours' notice; a no-show or same-day cancellation is charged in full.¹⁰ At the top of its range, a standard patio costs more than the family's $284³ in tickets before tax.

How many people pay these prices each year?

How busy Blizzard Beach is

Blizzard Beach drew an estimated 1,880¹³ thousand visitors in 2006 and rose slowly to 2,107¹⁴ thousand in 2015, its highest figure since at least 2006. It stayed near 2 million a year until 2019, when it drew 1,983¹⁵ thousand, 5.5%³ more than in 2006.¹⁵ These are industry estimates, not turnstile counts. The table below has every year from 2006 to 2023; it has no trend line, because the 2020-2022 closures break the series.

After 2019 the pattern broke. Blizzard Beach drew 316¹⁶ thousand visitors in 2020, when Typhoon Lagoon had no figure because it was closed, and 1,201¹⁷ thousand in 2021, with Typhoon Lagoon closed all year.⁴ Early in 2022, Blizzard Beach closed and Typhoon Lagoon reopened; Blizzard Beach counted 101⁴ thousand visitors that year, while Typhoon Lagoon drew 1,915⁴ thousand.¹⁷ Disney has mostly operated only one of the two parks at a time since then.⁴ In 2023 Blizzard Beach is not listed among North America's 20 busiest water parks, where the lowest entry drew 357¹⁸ thousand; no figure is given for it.

Typhoon Lagoon has been the busier of the two parks in every year both were open. In 2006 it drew 2,050¹³ thousand visitors against Blizzard Beach's 1,880¹³ thousand; both peaked in 2015, Typhoon Lagoon at 2,294¹⁴ thousand, and together the two parks drew 4,401³ thousand that year.¹⁴ In 2019 the pair drew 4,231³ thousand, Typhoon Lagoon 2,248¹⁵ thousand of it.¹⁵

Against North America's busiest water parks

In 2015 Disney's two water parks drew 4,401³ thousand of the 15,921¹⁴ thousand visits to North America's 20 busiest water parks, a share of 27.6%³. By 2019 the top-20 total had grown to 16,425¹⁵ thousand and the Disney share had eased to 25.8%³.¹⁵ The top 20 fell to 3,847¹⁶ thousand in 2020 and had recovered to 13,678¹⁸ thousand by 2023, 83.3%³ of the 2019 level.¹⁸ The top-20 totals are in the table above rather than on a trend chart, because a straight line through the 2020 collapse gives no sensible trend.

In the 2023 ranking, Typhoon Lagoon was North America's busiest water park with 1,898¹⁸ thousand visitors, just ahead of Volcano Bay at 1,800¹⁸ thousand and Aquatica at 1,437¹⁸ thousand, all three in Orlando.¹⁸ Florida has five of the top 20.

Small next to Disney's theme parks

Even in a normal year the water parks are a side attraction at Walt Disney World. In 2019 Magic Kingdom drew 20,963¹⁵ thousand visitors, about 10.6³ times Blizzard Beach's 1,983¹⁵ thousand, and the two water parks together took 6.7%³ of the 63,009³ thousand visits to the resort's six parks.¹⁵

The business behind the ticket

Disney's theme park admissions revenue, which covers every theme park Disney consolidates worldwide rather than only Walt Disney World or its water parks, grew from $2,771³⁰ million in fiscal 2005 to $11,707³¹ million in fiscal 2025, 4.22³ times as much.³¹ It fell to $4,038³² million in fiscal 2020 and $3,848³³ million in fiscal 2021, then passed its pre-2020 level in fiscal 2022 at $8,602³³ million.³³ Between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2025 it rose 55.3%³, while the adult water park ticket went from $69 to $74, up 7.2%³. Before 2020 the series rose every year from fiscal 2010 to fiscal 2019, from $3,504³⁴ million to $7,540³² million; its only earlier dip came in fiscal 2009, from $3,623³⁴ million to $3,403³⁴ million.³⁴

The parks segment as a whole is harder to follow, because Disney redrew it three times. Parks and Resorts earned $9,023³⁰ million in fiscal 2005; from fiscal 2018 the segment also took in consumer products, which alone moved fiscal 2018 revenue from $20,296³⁷ million under the old definition to $24,701³² million under the new one, so that jump is a change of definition, not growth.³² Under the current definition, Experiences, the segment made an operating loss of $120³⁸ million in fiscal 2021 and grew revenue from $28,085³⁸ million in fiscal 2022 to $36,156³¹ million in fiscal 2025.³¹ The table has every year under the segment name each filing used.

Experiences turned 27.6%³ of its fiscal 2025 revenue into operating income, and theme park admissions were 32.4%³ of that revenue.³¹ Under the older Parks and Resorts definition the fiscal 2005 margin was 13.1%³.³⁰ The two margins belong to different segment definitions, so they show the scale of the business rather than a like-for-like change.

Florida: who visits, who works

Florida received 142.873³⁹ million visitors in 2024, 1.6%³⁹ more than in 2023.³⁹ Domestic travelers made up 91.5%³⁹ of them, overseas visitors 6.2%³⁹ and Canadians 2.3%³.

The first quarter is Florida's busiest: 40.554³⁹ million visitors arrived in January to March 2024, against 33.093³⁹ million in October to December.³⁹

Over a longer span, out-of-state visitors in Florida's fiscal year (July to June) rose from 114,166,000⁴⁰ in 2016-17 to 128,409,000⁴⁰ in 2018-19, dipped to 96,617,000⁴⁰ in 2020-21, when international arrivals fell to 2,336,000⁴⁰, and reached 134,283,000⁴⁰ in 2021-22.⁴⁰

The parks also make Florida the center of the trade's workforce. Amusement and theme parks, a category that includes theme, water and amusement parks, had 81,897⁴¹ jobs in Florida in 2024, 39.3%³ of the 208,258⁴¹ in the United States.⁴¹ California followed with 50,231⁴¹, and no other state reached 11,000. The map shades the 35³ states with a published figure; the rest have no published figure.

Florida's park jobs pay more than most. The state's average annual pay in amusement and theme parks was $46,959⁴¹ in 2024, against $37,836⁴¹ for the United States.⁴¹ Among states with a published figure, only New Mexico averaged more, $71,486⁴¹, but on a base of just 537⁴¹ jobs, so a few employers set that figure.

Inside Florida the jobs sit almost entirely in one county. Orange County had 73,705⁴¹ amusement and theme park jobs at 41⁴¹ establishments in 2024, 90.0%³ of the state total and 35.4%³ of the national one, at an average of $48,870⁴¹.⁴¹ The next county with a published figure, Miami-Dade, had 307⁴¹.

What the numbers mean for your visit

The price on the ticket is not the price at the gate: tax adds $18.46³ to a family of four's $284³ in tickets.¹ The simplest saving is the blockout-date ticket, $10³ less per person on any day it is valid, and a party planning two water park days before May 15, 2027 pays less with the seasonal pass than with two single tickets, as long as neither day falls in the pass's blockout dates, February 19 to 21 and March 20 to 28, 2027.¹

For the day itself, a locker and an umbrella cost $59³ at the lowest date price, while a patio starts at $225¹⁰ and already includes a locker.¹⁰ And because one ticket covers whichever water park is open, it pays to check which park that is before booking a patio at Blizzard Beach or a shack at Typhoon Lagoon.¹

The price record also sets expectations. The adult ticket has risen six times since 2013 and never fallen, but after inflation a 2025 visit cost almost exactly what a 2013 visit did, at $74.00³ against $73.25³ in 2025 dollars.⁷ Real prices fall while the nominal price stands still, as they did from 2019 to 2023, and jump when Disney raises it.

Conclusions

1. The ticket has kept pace with inflation, not beaten it. The adult price rose from $53 in 2013² to $74,¹ up 39.6%,²¹ but in 2025 dollars the 2013 ticket was worth $73.25,²⁷ so the 2025 ticket is only 1.0% more expensive in real terms⁷ and below its 2019 real peak of $86.89.²⁷
2. Shade can cost as much as admission. A standard Polar Patio costs $225 to $425 a day,¹⁰ and at the top of that range it costs more than a family of four's $284 in tickets before tax.¹
3. The cheapest ways in are a blockout-date ticket and, for two visits, the pass.¹ The blockout-date ticket saves $10³ a person, and the seasonal pass costs $15³ more than one standard day; the pass is blocked out February 19 to 21 and March 20 to 28, 2027.¹
4. You buy a water park day, not necessarily a Blizzard Beach day. The same ticket covers Typhoon Lagoon,¹ and Blizzard Beach went from 1,983 thousand visitors in 2019¹⁵ to 101 thousand in 2022, the year it closed early.¹⁷⁴
5. Disney's admissions money grows faster than this ticket. Theme park admissions revenue rose 55.3% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2025,³²³¹ while the adult water park ticket rose 7.2%, from $69 to $74.²¹